Breaking news - New Juju 2.0 home^H^H^H^H data location

[Ian Booth]

As advance notice, the next alpha release of Juju 2.0 (due this week) will use a
new default home location. Juju will now adhere to the the XDG desktop standard
and use this directory (by default):

~/.local/share/juju

to store its working files (%APPDATA%/Juju on Windows). This is partly to allow
Juju 2.0 to be installed alongside 1.x.

Very, very soon, the need for an environments.yaml file will be no more, meaning
there will be no need for the user to edit any files in that directory. As a
sneak peak of what is coming, you will be able to, out of the box:

$ juju bootstrap mycontroller aws/us-west-2

Note that there's no need to "$ juju init" or edit any environment.yaml to use
the public clouds and regions supported by Juju. Adding support for new regions
or cloud information is a simple matter of running "$juju update-clouds".
There's more to come, but you get the idea.

Anyway, the point of the above is to say the location of the home/data directory
doesn't really matter as there will be no need to poke around inside it.

As an interim measure, if you run off master, just:

mkdir ~/.local/share/juju
cp -r ~/.juju/* ~/.local/share/juju

if you want to use existing models with the latest build from source.